In the announcement of the new Chromebook and Chromebox, I found this interesting tidbit: "And support for hardware-accelerated graphics, a built-from-scratch multi-touch trackpad and an open-source firmware stack provide a much faster and more responsive computing experience." It's the open source firmware stack that interests me. Does anybody know how extensive this is?

Oh well. At least further developments ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemote#Loongson_3A_laptop ) start to look quite interesting - and they should continue, considering China's efforts to achieve technology independence.
I don't think RMS cares much about lack of x86 compatibility (though, from the Wiki article about Loongson, it seems like the architecture has some provisions for speedy x86 emulation)

I guess it only fits that People's Republic of China might be the place that will bring Stallman 's dreams to reality... (with the inevitable "spilling over" of their domestic technologies - first to Asia, then at least Africa and Latin America; most of the world, really)